Vagrant base box creation

Download net install iso. Find a mirror close to you at:

    http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/6/isos/i386/

Create a new VirtualBox machine
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- Name: vagrant-centos
- Operating System: Linux
- Version: Red Hat 64bit

- Base Memory Size: 1000 Mb
- Dynamically expanding hard disk: 40Gb

- Disable Audio
- Disable USB
- Make sure network is set to NAT
- Attach the net install ISO to the CDROM so it can boot


Run through install procedure
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- Install system
- Skip verification
- Installation Method: HTTP
- Disable IPv6, leave IPv4 enabled with DHCP
- HTTP Setup:
  - URL:  http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/
  - URL: http://mirror.easyspeedy.com/centos/6.3/os/i386/

- Initialize drive and erase data: yes
- Configure network: yes
  - Set hostname to vm.centos
- Root password: vaqgrant
- Select minimal setup (click continue, this will take a while)
- Remove CDRom media
- Reboot
- Disable firewall:

    service iptables save  
    service iptables stop  
    chkconfig iptables off

Install guest additions
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First, install some required packages:

    yum install gcc bzip2 make kernel-devel-`uname -r`
    yum groupinstall ""X Window System

From the menu: Devices → Install Guest Additions...

    sudo mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
    sudo sh /mnt/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Will complain about X related drivers we didn’t install. Should be fine.
If you need to recompile, run this within the VM /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup and then vagrant reload


Users
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### Add vagrant user

- groupadd admin
- useradd -G admin dev
- passwd dev # choose "dev" as the password

### Grant sudo power

Run `visudo` and make the following changes:

Add the following lines at the bottom:

    # Vagrant user should be able to sudo  
    %admin ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

Comment out the following line:

    # Defaults requiretty # (otherwise ssh <command> doesn't work)

Add the variable "PATH" to the "Defaults env_keep" list, otherwise sudo cleans the path, and loses ruby, which ohai needs.

Save the changes and exit the editor.

Add `/usr/sbin` and `/sbin` to the path:

    echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin' >> ~vagrant/.bashrc



h2. Add Vagrant's "insecure" public key

h2. As user vagrant

mkdir .ssh

chmod 755 .ssh

curl https://raw.github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub > .ssh/authorized_keys

chmod 644 .ssh/authorized_keys

h2. Clean up

- sudo yum clean headers packages dbcache expire-cache
- halt

h2. Export and package

Follow instructions on http://vagrantup.com/docs/base_boxes.html

h3. NFS

- yum install nfs-utils
- chkconfig rpcbind on
- chkconfig nfslock on


h2. Users


h2. Enable NFS support